Grange La Chapelle 2022
Penfolds Grange La Chapelle 2022
3500 euro, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Rhone/South Australia.
The first words to come to mind: it’s noticeably and impressively harmonious. It has melded. Plums, black cherries, cream, flings of aromatic herbs but not exaggeratedly so. Aromatically there’s a pan juices note, like roast lamb and rosemary. The palate itself has a gentle saltiness. The finish is creamy but also spicy, peppery, earthen and herbal; it’s fine-grained, and in both sensation and in shape it has a feel of difference to the other Penfolds wares. The length of the palate is exceptional, the aftertaste is so minerally, so rock-strewn. It feels as though there’s some alcohol warmth but otherwise this wine is not short of magnificence. It’s arguably a better wine than 2021 Grange, or it is if intrigue is a measure you value.
97/100.
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